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PARAGRAMS. ' ’ —Yesterday, in New York, Gold wM quoted at 1.44. Cotton, 27 jc. —The Horseshoe Falls at Niagara have receded six feet in the last y«t. —CalifoWiia publishes 238 newspapers and periodicals* —The Princess of Took, Queen Victoria’s cousin, has been in trouble since her baby was sick. It is getting bolter. —Pollard’s Political Pamphlet is said to be very successful. Os the first number 100,000 copies were circulated. —Miss Charlotte Cushman aud Miss Emma Stebbins are at present residing at Swampscott, near Boston. —Prague editors get porters to sign the articles in the journals, so vigorously are the press prosecutions carried on out there. —Silver and golden anklets for ladies are about to become fashionable. They will be worn outside the stockings. —The breach in the Atlantic Telegraph • Cable is about 80 miles from Newfoundland, in water 100 fathoms deep. —One of Mr. Gladstone’s sous is to take holy orders at Christmas and become a curate in Lambeth. —The Boston correspondent of the n ~ cinnati Timet says there is no likelihood of anybody defeating Gen. Butler for the nomi nation to Congress. —A North Carolina correspondent of the Rochester Democrat denies that any con siderable number of the colored voters of that State have joined the Democratic party. —The New Jersey Railroad Company • refuses to employ any one who. does not pay his boarding aud washing bills regu larly. 1 —lion. John A. Bingham is to stump California for Grant aud Colfax. lie leaves for the Pacific coast immediately after the . election in Ohio. . —A favorite style of dress for gentlemen in Paris this summer has been coats, vests and trowsers ol white silk, with blue —One ol the finest weddings in London this year was that of Sir Ivor Guest, a rich Welsh iron master, to n daughter of the Duke of Marlborough. —For the week ending Tuesday, the 15 th instant, 218 patents will be issued from the Patent Office. During the last week 270 applications and 54 caveats were filed. —An elderly Pennsylvania woman, wfth her daughter, looking at the marble statue of Girard, in the college building, startled the by standers by exclaiming: "La ! Sally, bow white he W’as.” -There will be no election in California until November, as, by act of the Legisla ture, the State election on Presidential election years is postponed until that mouth. —The Philadelphia Age. says "Vermont gives a crumb .of comfort to the Radicals.” Well, yes. Ten thousand gain is a pretty comfortable “crumb.” It’s ti Republica’n “crumb!’ and a Democratic crumb—ling. —Judge Jerry Black lately said that if President Buchanan had known, before his death that Frank Blair was to bo the Demo cratic candidate for Vice President, the old man’s heart would have broken with indig nation. —Senator Morton, of Indiana, who has been spending some time at St. Catharine’s, Canada, has materially improved in health. It is intimated that he expects, in a few Weeks, to take part in the Presidential cam paign. —A fund is being raised for the purpose of inirchasiug a homestead for ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, whom the Norfolk Day Book describes as “the noblest Roman of the nineteenth century.” —Governor Curtin thinks that Pennsyl vania will give Grant a heavier majority than was ever before cast for a Presidential can didate, and that Seymour-will not get a sin "gie Northern State, if the tide keeps on rising, lie believes the vote of Vermont will be the key-note of the final result, —ln Columbus, Ohio, the Roman Catho lics are building a cathedral one hundred by one hundred and eigbty-seven feet in dimensions, with a tower two hundred and fifty feet in bight. The style will be that known as the Early English. —The Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., were recently sold at public auction for >236,000. Mr. James Erasure, jr., was the purchaser—a young man about twenty two yews of age. He inherited a portion of the property, and is now the solo proprietor. —The Hon. John M. Harlan, of Louis ville, Intely Attorney General of Kentucky, .. a McClellan Democrat in 1864, a colonel in the Union army, and one of the most effect. • ive public speakers in Kentucky, has taken ground in favor of Grant and Colfax. —Gov. Seymour was always noted for giving bad advice, and he never gave worse than when he urged bis party to “push” the financial question, when they can t agree which way to push it. Don’t commit yourself, Mr. Seymour, by any more letters on grave public topics.. Stick to water melons. | —Vallandigham aud S*m Carey having been posted to speak from the same platform recently in Ohio, each of the gentlemen in . diguautly discfaimed all knowledge of the aauocsccacsrt, and would not fill • *“* »p --. pohrtment. Vallandigham is ashamed of Cary, and Cary is ashamed of Vallandrghatn. —Gen. Graii’ is 'acting wisely in keeping himself in a quiet place in the West during the campaign. He would be bored to death st* Washington, and we fear the bores would persecute his patience out of him at any of the fashionable watering-places. There nre hut few places where he could enjoy as much peace and comfort as at Galena. One of these few places is West Point; another, New York. —Senator Fessenden has gone into the Maine campaign in earnest. His speeches are, in many respects, the very ablest that • have yet been delivered anywhere. The financial question, in particular, is discussed by him with great clearness, vigor, and ef "* fectiveueas; but never abler than in the Portland speech, which was published last week. We are not surprised that Mr. Fes senden is exerting great influence on public opinion and the prospects ot the election. —The platform of the New York De mocracy demands "one currency for the laborer and tile office-holder, the producer apd the bond holder.” Bosh! When were there ever. two different currencies for dif ferent classes ? It is and always has been either gold for all or paper for all. Only we want to secure a gold currency, and the Democracy are trying to perpetuate paper. —The Chinese understood the science of making paper money pass current, for during the Ming dynasty the government notes bore this indorsement; "At the peti tion of the Treasury Board, it is ordained that paper money thus marked with imperial seal of the Ming shall have currency, and be used in all respects ns if it. Were copper taouey; whoever disobeys will hate his heed ent off.” NntipimlUcpublicmi AUOUWA. g»a. FRIDAY MORNING September 11, 1868 For T*T€.KSII Os the United States : ULYSSES S. GRANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: Schuyler Colfax, OF IF DIAS A. Republican Electoral Ticket. FOR THE BTATE AT LARGE. HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton. AMOST. AKERMAN, of Elbert. alternates. Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield. C. 11. Hopkins, of Chatham. FOR THE DISTRICT*. Is/ District—A. WILBUR, of Chatham. Alternate— E. E. Howard, of Chatham. 2<Z District— E. K. HARDEN, of Randolph. Alternate— S. F. Salter, of Pulaski. 3<Z Dw/ricZ-E. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot. Alternate— J. R. Thomasson, of Carroll. W District—Wx. H. WHITEHEAD, of Butts. . Alternate— Henry Glover, ol Jasper. 5M District—J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond. Alternate— F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe. Ijth District —J. 8. FAIN, of Union. Afitona/e—lsaac S. Ci SMEXTS, of Forsyth. Ith District ■ Alternate— F. A. Kirut, of Chattooga. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. We lay before our readers, this morning, one of the ablest State papers that ever emanated from the Executive Department of Georgia. This magnificent document is a triumphant vindication of the sagacity of the Republican party in selecting Rufus B. Bullock as the Chief Magistrate of Georgia. We arc proud of him. The Republican party idolizes its able Gov ernor and noble champion. The whole people of Georgia will soon leuru to appre ciate his reul worth, and will honor him for the splendid courage with which he defends the Constitution of his country and State. The lovers of the Union throughout this entire nation will peruse tiiis overwhelming indictment of the re creants who have deliberately disregarded the sanctity of their solemn oaths, and perpetrated this foul wrong on their fellow citizens. Gov. Bullock exhiius7s*the subject, and the guilty culprits in the House of Repre sentatives deserve some sympathy for their insulting and dishonorable course in re turning the damning expose of their own treacherous infamy. We pity the poor creatures, who, not being able to answer the Governor’s convincing arguments, guiltily*acknowledge the fact by the adoption of their cowardly resolution. We have no room for further comment. The message needs no commendation at our hands. It speaks for itself, and will blast the reputation of every traitor and cow ardly demagogue in the House that black ened his soul with perjury by openly vot ing against law and facts. FRAUDULENT. The regular reporter for the Atlanta In telligencer, l>eing a practical man, thor oughly understands his business, reported the more Salient points in Blustering Bon Toombs’ Cedar Town speech for that life long Democratic organ, the Intelligencer, just as the bullying blackguard uttered them, and published them. Here is the (Democratic reporter’s version: In a brief review of Grant, tho speaker de picted the degradation of the chieftain, t"i< that h< had been proven a liar, while a member of Johnson’s Cabinet, by five of his colleagues. lie it a eonjeeeed traitor, tor he said ho wont into tho councils of Mr. Johnson for that purpose. Mr. Toombs, however, was disposed to think that Grant had lied upon hitMtlf when ke rnade the confettion ; it wae lie the eecond to get out of lie the first. When this report reached the North, the injuatiqe and brutality of Toombs’ lan guage even shocked the sense of decency of the New York BieraW, and that paper ad" ministered a rebuke that actually entered the rhinoceros hide of the villainous author. After the criticism of the Herald and other journals had been received and read in Georgia, the rascally revolutionist wrote out his speech, ami modified the language of denunciation in the following manner: He (Grant) accepted the confidential position cf Bootetary of War from the President, had his veracity directly impeached by five of his col leagues, and attempted to support veracity by plending his own treachery. Now, notwithstanding the reiterated declarations of the Intdligeneer* reporter as to the correctness of the version of that paper, the Ku-Kiux organ in this city, has the'audacity to characterize the latter re port as “misstatements.” Who that knows Bob Toombs—Democrat or Republican docs not believe that he used tlw vulgar language attributed to him by John L. Ells 1 Who that knows the editor of the Ku-Klux organ does not know he will deny the truth as frequently as denials suits his wicked purposes i The editor of that organ knows that Bob Toombs is a drunken profooc, vulgar beast. He knows that in his speech in this city he violated the iiuuous 18th section —by the use of vulgar ity and profanity—to » degree that would have justified his arrest by the guardians of the public peace and public decency. He knows that Toombs denounced the citi zens of Augusta for not having killed the Governor of the State. He knows that Toombs gloried in having trampled on the United States' flag. He knows tltnt the Democrats smuggled him out of the city to prevent a repetition of his violence. He knows that even Bkx Hill characterized his speech as scandalous and disgraceful. We challenge a contradiction, and would suggest to the editor the propriety of pub lishing an authorized version of Toombs’ Central Hotel speech. THE DECISION OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY FAVORABLE TO REPUB LICANISM. A few days since, the Republican ex posed the demagogical attempt of the Atlanta Constitution to evade the odium justly attaching to the revolutionary pro gramme of the Democratic party, and that paper’s incorrect and unfair charge, that General Grant and the Republican party would disregard any decision of the Su preme Court. Wc alleged, and produced the proof from those higher in authority with the so called Democracy than the editor of the Constitution, that the Democ racy contemplate no appeal to the Supreme Court, if Seymouk is elected, but intend, nolens nolens, Ito “trairijile the Southern State Governments in the dust.” Blaik says the "only” wny to succeed is to make the military undo whatever Ims been done in the South. In the same article wc Contended that the Supreme Court does not now, and never did, possess the authority to interfere with any legislation of Congress on the ques tion of reconstruction. Our position, and the position of the Republican party, based on the matured opinions of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the land, is that the question as to the legality of any State Government is a political one, and .can only be decided by the legislative depart- ’ ment of the Government. This is not a new question. The principle Ims already been decided in favor of the position of our party long before the party had an existence. In the noted Dorr case from Rhode Island, Chief Justice Taney, decisions are so highly prized that the Georgia Democracy quote them against the plain provisions of an amended United States Constitution, in giving the opinion of the Supreme Court, said : “Under this article of tho Constitution it rests with Congress to decide what government is tho established one in a State. For as the United Stales guarantee to each State a republican government, Congress must necessarily decide what government is established in tho State before it can determine whether it is republican or not. And when tho Senators and Representa tives of a State are admitted to tho councils of tho Union, the authority es the government under which they are appointed, as well as its republican character, is recognized by tho proper constitutional authority. And its decision is binding upon every other department of the Government, and could not be questioned in a judicial tribunal.” Could language be more forcible ? If we had employed the terms of the Chief Jus tice as an editorial, the Democrats would have denounced the sentiments as the mad ravings of a partisan. Gentlemen of the Democratic press, 4ill you dig up the bones of the lamented Taney, who was a Democrat when many of you were in your twaddling clothes, antt burn them for de ciding favorable to the principles amt policy of the Republican party before there was such a party ? Apply the above de cision to Georgia, at the present time, on a question as to which is the legal Govern ment, that with Chas. J. Jenkins at its head, or the one administered by Rufus B. Bullock, and the language of Chief Jus tice Taney is that the legislative De partment of the Government having de cided favorable to the latter “its decision is binding upon every other Department of the Government, and could not be ques tioned in a judicial tribunal.” Frank Blaik understands this, and hence he does not propose to appeal to the Supreme Court, but advocates a resort to war. Are the people ready for another war? If so, they should be sure and not vote for Gkant and Colfax. ♦ Back Your Judgment.— A number of noisy Democrats in this city profess to have faith in Seymour’s election. One hundred dollars has been placed in our hands for the accommodation of any Democrat that may think Grant won’t be the next President. Out with your weasel skins, gentlemen. The money is ready to be staked on the man who never lost a battle, and who did not cry like a baby when he was nominated Tut; Electoral Vosw of the States.— It is generally known that the electoral college is constructed so that it contains just as many electors as there are Senators and Representatives in Congress. The ing table will be found convenient for ref- erence : Illiavis 16 Indiana 13 Kentucky .11 Massachusetts 12 Missouri 11 New YorWt 33 Virginia 10 Ohio ....21 Pennsylvania 26 Tennessee 10 Alabama S Arkansas 5 California 5 Connecticut r. 6 Delaware 3 Florida 3. vregou 3 Georgia 0 Kansas 3 I —One of the most forcible Democratic documents ever put in print has been often published, but it deserves toprodiiction once more. Here it is : Hox. Wm. I’. Miles, Richmond, Va- Has the bill fur the execution of abolition prisoners after January next been passed? Do it, and England will bestirred into ac tion. it is high time to proclaim the black flag, after that period. Let the execution be with the garrote. G. T. Bkavreuabv. November 10, 1862. —Grant’s silence has troubled the Demo crats a great deal, but we don't see that they like it any better when others speak for him. Vermont made a ringing speech, the other day j she had made it before, but it was good enough to stand repetition, and it was given with unusual effect. We expect to hear another campaign speeyh Atom Maine before long. These Down-Easters talk plainly, and to the point. —John’Covode bus been making a speech iu Pennsylvania, in which he indulged his hearers in reminiscences of the first months of Andrew Johnson’s Presidency. At an interview, shortly after his accession to office, the question was put: “Andy, I want to know what your policy is going to be?’’ The reply was: “Hang them, liaiiy them, hang them I” He was next asked : "How many do you expect to kill?” “At least two hun dred, including Jeff. Davis,” was the re sponse. —The cigars made by the French Govern ment are excellent. Those of the Italian Government are execrable. GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. | . ~ I Masterly Vindication of the Constitn tion and Laws of Georgia. THE USURPERS EXPOSED. To the House of Representatives : I **.* * * i Your Committee requested of me the I names of the parties, who, in the respective counties named, received the number of votes next highest to the persons so de clared ineligible. I immediately caused the necessary ex amination of the election returns to be made, by two competent persons, sworn to the due and faithful performance of that duty ; and herewith submit the names of the parties ascertained to have received, in the respective counties named, tho next highest number of votes ; namely, While thus complying with the request -Of your Committee", 1 deem it my duty to gay that when inaugurated as Governor of this State, in presence of tho General As sembly, I took a solemn oath, that Io the best of my ability, 1 would preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and though I am only able on this occasion to defend. the Constitution bv expressing a respectful ob jection to the action already taken, as well as that about to bo taken, by the House of •Representatives in connection with the report above given. A due regard for my official oath will not -permit mq to remain a silent spectator of the. attempt thus made to deprive electors of many counties in the State of their Con stitutional’ right to the voice and vote in your deliberations of their chosen Repre sentatives ; and the placing in their stead of persons who did not and can not receive a majority of the votes in those, counties. It must be apparent to the mind of every person not blinded by prejudice, after fairly viewing our situation in the late past, and our present condition under civil govern ment, that such action is a violation of the Constitution, which you and I have sw-orn to support. When the armies of the confederated re bellion surrendered to the military power of the government of the nation, and tho composing the civil establishment of the insurrectionary States became cither prisoners or fugitives, we were left a com munity composed of non-combatants, parol ed prisoners of war, and persons —formerly slaves—who had been set free. IVe were totally without political rights or privileges. Those which we have since acquired arc such as have from time to time been granted us by Congress. Under the provisions of the Congressional law, all male inhabitants of the State, ex cept such as were specially excluded by law, are permitted, after framing a Consti tution acceptable to the general government to establish a government for the State... All the rights, privileges and immunities enjoyed today by any citizen of this State, are so enjoyed, under and by virtue of this Constitution, and are derived through tho clemency of Congress in permitting us to organize a civil government under that in strument. The attempt is now made to exclude electors who are not of Anglo-Saxon blood from the right of representing the voters by whom they’ were legally and Constitution ally elected. Whence does the elected representative of one county derive authority to become a judge and decide that the representatives duly elected from another county shall not be seated ? If such authority is not fbrmed in this Constitution, it can only be delivered from the unlawful exercise of power. The only limitation upon the eligibility of an elector to office, or to membership of the General Assembly, is found in the following provisions of the Constitutions of this State anil of the United States, namely : CONSTITUTION OF GEORGIA. ARTICLE I. Sec. 3. No person convicted of felony or larceny before any court of this State, or olj or in the United States, shall be eligible to any office or appointments of honor or trust within this State, unless he shall have been pardoned. Sf.c. 4. No person who is the holder of f any public moneys shall be eligible to any office in this State, until the same is account -1 ed for and paid into the treasury. I Sec. 5. No person who, after the adoption j of this Constitution, being a resident of this , State, shall engage in a duel in this State, or ekewhere, or shall send or accept a chal- ■ lenge, or be aider or abettor to such "durol, • shall vote or hold office. in this State; and ■ . every such person shall, also, be subject to such punishment'as the law may prescribe. Sec. 6. The General Assembly may pro vide, from time to time, for the registration of all Electors, but tho following classes of ' persons shall not be permitted, to register, I vote, or hold office: _ First. Those who have been convicted of treason, embezzlement, of public funds, mal feasance in office, crime punishable by law with imprisonment i.u the Penitentiary, or bribery. Second. Idiots or insauq.persons. ARTICLE I. Six. 1. If. 4. No person holding a Mili tary Commission, or other appointment or ; office, havitl|f any emolument or compensa tion annexed thereto, under the State or . United States, or either of them, except ’ Justice of the Peace and officers of the militia, nor anv defaulter for public money, nor for any legal texes required of him, ! shall have a seat in cither House ; nor shall 1 any Senator or Representative, after his ■ qualification as such, be elected by the r General Assembly or appointed by the I Governor, either with or without the advice and consent of the Senate, to any office or ' appointment, having any emolument an nexed thereto, during the time for which he shall have been elected. •’ 5. The seat of a member of either House 1 shall be vacated on his removal from the district from which he was elected. Sec. 3 3. The Representatives shall be citizens of the United States who have attained the age of twenty-one years, and who, after tho first election under the Con ' slitulion, shall have been citizaus of this State for one year, and lor six months resi dent* of the counties Irotn which elected. ARTICLE IV. Sec. 1. ‘1 3. No person shall be eligible to th? office of Governor who shall not have been a citizen of the United States fifteen years, and a citizen of this State six years, and who shall not have attained the age of thirty years. Sec. 2. *1 5. A person once rejected by the Senate shall " not be re-appointed by tlie Governor to the same office during the same session, or the recess thereafter. article v. Sec. 10. *! 3. No person shall be Judge of the Supreme or Superior Courts, or Attorney General, unless, at the time of his appoint ment, he shall have attained the age of thirty years, and shall have been a citizen of this State three years, and have practiced law for seven years. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Louisiana 7 Maine 7 Maryland 7 Minnesota 1 Miatissippi 7 Nevada 3 Nebraska 3 New Hampshire. .m.. 5 Now Jersey 7 Rhode Island 4 South Carolina it Texas 6 Vermont 5 West Virginia 5 North Carolina...,;. 9. Wisconsin 8 lowa 8 Michigan 8 I Total 31 A It TI C L £ X I V. Sec 1. No person shall boa Senator or Rep resentative in Congress, or elector of the President and- Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having pre viously taken an oath as a member of Con gress. or as any officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any. State, to support the Constitution of tho United States, shall have engaged in insur rection .or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disabilities. CONSTITUTION OF GEORGIA. ARTICLE XI. Sec. 1. As the supreme law. The Consti tution of the United States in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made under tho au thority of the United States. Sec. 2. As next in authority thereto, this Cohstilution. From the foregtAug it must be freely ad mitted that no person is made ineligible under our Constitution on account of race or color. That neproes are citizens and electors of the State, and therefore entitled to all the. privileges enjoyed by other citizens and electors, and Subject only to the same re strictions, is further demonstrated by article 1, section 2, and article 2, section 2 of the Constitution, as follows : ARTICLE I. , Sec. 2. All persons born or naturalized, in the United States, and resident in this State, arc hereby declared citizens of this State, and no lawi shall be made or enforced which shall abridge the privileges or immu nities of citizens of the United States, or of this State, or deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws. And it shall be the duty of the General As sembly, by appropriate legislation, to protect every person in the due enjoyment of the rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed in this Section. ARTICLE 11. Sec. 2. Every male person born in the United Stales, and every male person who has been naturalized, or has legally declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old, or up- j ward, who shall have resided in this State six months next preceding the election, and shall have resided thirty days in the county in which he offers to vote, and shall have paid all taxes which may have been required of him, and which he may have had an op portunity of paying, agreeably to law, for the year next preceding the election (except as hereinafter provided), shall be deemed an elector, and every male citizen of the United States, of the age aforesaid (except as here inafter provided), who may be a resident of the State at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be deemed an elector, and shall have all the rights of an elector, as aforesaid. Provided, That no soldier, sailor, or ma rine, in the military or naval service of the United States, shall acquire the rights of an elector by reason of being stationed on duty in this State; and no person shall vote, who, if challenged, shall refuse to take the follow ing oath: “I do swear that I have not given, or re ceived, nor do I expect to give, or receive, any money, treat, or other thing of value, by which my vote, or any vote, is affected, or expected to be affected, at this election, nor have I given or promised any reward, or made any threat, by which to prevent any person from voting at this election.” I am aware that gentlemen argue that the eligibility of the colored elector to office' should have been affirmatively stated by specific enactment in the Constitution, in order to vest in him that privilege. It might with more propriety be argued that a constitution framed by delegates who were voted for by eighty-five thousand black men and twenty-five thousand white men, and ratified by the votes of seventy thousand black men and twenty-five thousand white mens did not carry with it that privilege to the white elector, because it was nut affirma tively stated. Admitting, however, that this privilege ought to have been so grunted, and we find, that, by Paragraph 3 of Article XI of the the Code of laws, known as Irwin's Code, continues of force, when not inconsistent with the Constitution. Section 1648 of that Code is as follows: Among the rights of citizens are the enjoy ment of personal security, of persona! liberty, private property, and the disposition thereof, tho elective franchise, the right to hold office, to appeal to the courts, to testify as a witness, to perform any civil fiHictiou, and to keep and bear arms.” Section 1849 of the Code states that “ all citizens arc entitled to exercise their rights as such, unless specially prohibited by law.” Sections 1859 and"lßsl specially prohibit females and infants—both of which classes are citizens—from exercising certain of the rights of citizens. Will any’one declare that these sections are inconsistent with the Constitution ? Will any one < e..y that the negro is a citizen ? 11l the Constitutional Convention which framed the Constitution, under which we act; on the 15th day of February, 1868, Mr. Waddell, of Polk, moved a reconsideration of so much of the journal as related to the striking out of the 10th section of the report o? the Committee on Franchise, for the purpose of offering the following as a sub stitute for said section, namely : “ White men only shall be eligible to office of truth, honor or profit., or employment, whether municipal, judicial or political, in this State, and white men only shall serve as jurors in the courts. 1 ' This motion was voted down by a vote of 103 to 19. If the Convention intended that white men only should hold office, why did they not adopt Mr. Waddell’s motion ? Again, is it reasonable to suppose that a class of citizens, who had been recognized and commissioned aS officers to execute the Reconstruction acts,by holding the elections, and who had been qualified officers of the Convention which framed our Constitution, should be now any the less eligible undey the Constitution which they participated in framing, unless the right they then enjoyed hud been curtailed, or entirely withdrawn by express enactment 1 No, gentlemen; the framers of the Con stitution made no distinction between elec tors, or citiz ens, on account of race or color, and neither can you without violating it It is argued that this can be done under Paragraph I, Section 4, Article III: “Each House shall be the judge of the election re turns and qualifications of its members, and shall have power to punish them for disor derly behavior or misconduct by censure, tine, imprisonment, or expulsion ; but no member shall be expelled except by a vote of two-thirds of the House from which he is expelled.” Each House is the judge only as to whether its members are qualified according to the provisions of the Constitution, and of laws made in pursuance thereof; but the House certainly shall not ‘judge” members to be ineligible or disqualified, because their po litical sentiments or the color of their skin is not acceptable to the majority ; nor shall they, in case there be a doubt as to the Icgit imacy of such an act, place the weight of that doubt against the person on trial. Having first silenced, en masse, the votes of twenty-five of your members, and then by resolution, in defiance of the Constitution, declared them ineligible, you now propose to fill their places by citizens- who failed to re ceive a majority of the votes iu their re spective counties. Is that a republican form .of government where a majority of the electors rule? Are not the privileges of a citizen “abridged” by your action ? Hoes not the Constitution ot the Unitpd States guarantee to each State a republican form of government, and to the citizens all their privileges or immu nities ? Is it not tlte duty of Congress, by appro priate legislation, to enforpe that Constitn* on 11 ? Have we, from our past experience, any reason to believe that Congress will fail in its duty ? But, reasoning from motives of policy alone, tho denial of the right of colored men to hold office will but stimulate a desire on their part, which has not heretofore existed, to press themselves forward into official po sitions. At the result of an election for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, when none participated except the negroes and the few white friends of self-government who were not overawed by the opponents of Recon struction, we find an assemblage of one hun dred and sixty-nine members, of whom only thirty-three were persons of color, and in the late election, when every possible means was used to prevent white persons from becoming candidates on the popular side of the ques tion, out of one thousand two hundred and eighty-three persons elected to office, only forty-five of that number are colored. Add to these facts that, with a Genpral Assembly of two hundred and • seventeen members, but thirty-one are colored, and it must be apparent to the unprejudiced mind that the colored men have not acquired that insatiable thirst for office which is so charac teristic of our own race. The denial, how ever, of a well established right will beget contention for the enjoyment of it. In conclusion, 1 most respectfully and ear nestly call upon you, ns lovers of our com mon country aud well-wishers of tho peace anß good order of the State, to pause in the suicidal course upon which you have entered, urged on, as you are, by bold, bad men out side your body, whose wicked counsels have ouce drenched our land in blood, and whose ambition now is to ruin that which they can not rule. R. 11. BULLOCK. SPECIAL NOTICES. gig-GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKS!! The old established “Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory” Is prepared to furnish GRAIN SACKS of any desired size er quality, aud at short notice. Also, COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR SACKS Neatly printed to order. Information promptly furnished upon applica tion. W. B. ASTEN A CO., jo 17 —3m 25 Pearl Street, New York City. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. An Opportunity to Planters. ASSIGNEE’S SALE IN BURKE. WILL BE SOLI). AT THE RESIDENCE of Adan McNatt, Esq., in Burke county, on the 28th day of September, 1868, the following property, to-wit: Two Common Bod-Steads, Three Bureaus, Two Dozen Chairs, Five Rocking Chairs, Three Tables, Two Tete a-Tetes, Five Washstands, One Candle-Stand, Three Lamps, Two Side-Boards,,Two Book-Cases, Four Pairs Andirons, Two Pairs Shovels and Tougs, Ten Goblete and Tumblers One Mule, One Horse, One Yearling, One Two-Horse Buggy, One Peddler Wagon, One Rake, Two Garden Hoes. Five Planting Hoes, Twenty Plows, Five Axes, Two Garden Spades. One Forty-Five Saw Gin, One Set of Banning Gear, One Bngar Mill, etc., etc. also, Will be sold before the Cbijrt House door iu the town of Waynesboro, Burke county, Ga.. on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER, 1868, all the Real Estate of the said Adam McNatt I now in Bankruptcy), consisting of (2,21-1) two thousand two hundred and fourteen Acres of Laud, more or lees, in said couuty of Burke (excepting fifty acres with dwelling, set. apart to the Bankrupt), lying in the 71st District of said county, mostly ou tho waters of Little Buck-Head Creek, aud constitu ting a very valuable tract; and, ALSO, Richmond county Lands, 150 Acres, adjoining Bath Lands, on Little Spirit Cieek, formerly property of James McNair ; and a Fine Summer Residence in Bath, with six and one half acres adjoining, the health of which is not surpassed by any locality in the South. Sold under an order of the Hon. A. G. Foster, Register iu Bankruptcy, free from all incum brances ot the creditors. Waynesboro. Ga., Septembers, 1868. H. II PERRY, septi—law - Assignee. Assignee’s Sale. Agreeably to an order from Hon A. G. Foster, Register in _ Bank ruptcy. will be sold, before the Court House door, at Appling, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTO BEK, next, within the legal hours of sale one tract or parcel of Land, lying in the county of Columbia, on the waters of Sullivan’s Creek, aud adjoining lands of Wm. S. Dunn, D. Colvin, and D. Marshall, containing (425) four hundred and twenty-five acres, more or less Also, a certain Ji. fa,, issued from Columbia Superior Court, iu favor of Thomas K. Blalock James M. Harris, Administrator of W. 11. Pullin, deceased, and one prommissory (negotiable) note on Joseph G. Mar shall, deceased. Sold as the property of Thomas K. Blalock, a Bankrupt, for the benefit of his creditors. The land will be sold free from all encumbrance. At the same time and place will he sold a prom issory (negotiable) note on James L. Eubank, with William Bennett, security, for tho benefit of the creditors of George T. Dunn, a Bankrupt. Thums--Cash, in the currency of the country. September 10th, 1868. 11. S NEAL, sep 11—Iaw3w Assignee. gOUTHERN DISTRICT QF GEORGIA, SS. The undersigned hereby gives notice of his appointment as Assignee of J. S. BRISCOE, of Columbia county, Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition by the District Conrt of said District. Thomson, Ga., September 11, 1868. A. E. STUBGIB, _aepll-law3w Assignee. The Best Music Book FOR SABBATH SCHOOLS J S “ THE SABBATH SCHOOL TRUMPET,” JL a collection of Hymns and Tunes, Chants and Anthems, appended to which is a Juvenile Can tata, entitled, “The Origin of the Seasons,” for the use of Sabbath Schools. By W. O. und H< S’. Perkins. Price, in Paper 30. Bids 3b. OLIVER DiTSON & CO.'. Publishers, 277 Washington Si., Boston. CHAS. 11. DITSON A CO., seplO—tf 711 Broadway,-New York. Tuckerman’s Cathedral Chants. INCLUDING THE GREGORIAN TUNES. The whole adapted to the Canticles and Occa sional Services of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Services for the Holy Communion, and the Burial of the Dead, with a morning service in F, consist ing of Te Deum and Benuedictus, with a separate Book of Words, enabling Choirs to adapt such Chants to the Canticles as they prefer, instead of conforming, fn all cases, to the selections made by the editor. Price $3.00. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Publishers, 277 Washington St., Boston. CH AS. H. DITSON A CO., seplO—tf 711 Broadway. New York. Wanted to Rent. A SMALL HOUSE— _A WITH ONE OK TWO ROOMS ANDA KITCHEN, adjacent to the Recvblican office. Apply at raplO-tf THIS OFFICE. To Rent. That neat cottage residence No. 202 South Telfair street, between Koi lock and Cumming streets, at present occupied by Henry Edmonston, Esq. Apply to R. S. AGNEW, sepß—tf 360 Broad at. NOTICE To Retailers of Spirituous Liquors. Retailers of spirituous liquors whose County License have expired, or who have not yet taken out anch license, are hereby notified that they must renew or ta ko ou * same forthwith, or they will be dealt with accord ing to law. SAMUEL LEV 3, an Si—<»t ordinary Richmond County. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Official. Proclamation by the Governor. Whereas, Law abiding citizens from man. sections of tho State unite in communications t this Department, setting forth that misguide! persons arc stirring up strife among the penal by unlawful acts of violence against tho perL*’ ahd property of citizens, on account of p, opinion; and that persons distinguished f their hostility to tho Government of tho United States, and of this State, ato promoting said act of violence by publicly denouncing the laws a revolutionary, unconstitutional and void »ni declaiming in a mannner • MtrdTtig to excite re sistanoe to the lawful authority of tho Bute aud to persuade others to join In a combined resist ance to, and a disregard of tho civil rights of citizens ; aud whereas, it is further commun? cated that the inevitable result of said acts of violence and insurrectionary appeals is al road • becoming manifest in the rapid spread of a di? position on the part of those who maintain th validity of tho laws of Congress, aud of the Sta? Governments established thereunder, to protee't themselves by arms from said acts of violent? and from said combinations against thefr c ;.?’ rights; and whereas, tho General Assembly La adopted the following preamble and resolution’ *• Whereas, It being the practice of a portion of tho citizens of this State to assemble i n l ar ’ numbers with arms, for the purpose of exercising in military tactics, and for other unlawful pur poses, without authority of law, and to.the terror of tho good citizens thereof: Resolved, there fore, by tho Senate and House of Representative? That His Excellency tho Governor oo ami h c ;’ hereby respectfully requested to issue his procla maton prohibiting such armed and unlawful assemblages. But tho right of Hie people to peaceably assemble for the consideration of auv matter shall not bo impaired by any proclama tion of the Governor.” Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor of this State, and Commander-in-Cliief o f the army and navy, and of tho militia thereof d 0 issue this my Proclamation, commanding all citizens to abstain from any acts of vioFonce against person or property, or from persuasion* which will tend to excite to violence or unlawful combinations, and from all iutotforenoe with the constitutional right of persons to assemble f or political or other peaceful purposes; and to wield prompt and respectful obedience to the officer* of the law under all circumstances; and also charging upon the said officers the exercise of great vigilance, that tho majesty of the civil l aw may bo vindicated, and great caution that all their acts may be fully justified by and done in pursuance of our Constitution and laws. A n J to make known that no authority has been granted by the Executive for tho formation ot armed or unarmed organizations of any kind or character; and that the drilling or exercising in military tactics, with arms, of any organized body of men within this State, except the army of tho United States, is unauthorized, unlawlul and against tho peace and good order of the State, and must bo immediately suspended. The following extracts from the Constitution and the Code are commended to the thoughtful consideration of tho public: ARTICLE I—CONSTITUTION. Sec. 1. Protection to person aud property is the paramount duty of government, and shall be impartial and complete. Sec. 2. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and resident in this State, are hereby declared citizens of this State, and no laws shall be made or enforced which shall abridge tho privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or of this Siato, or deny to any person within its jurisdiction tho equal pro tection of its laws. And it shall be tho duty of tho General Assembly, by appropriate legisla tion, to protect every person in the due enjoy ment of tho rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed in this section. Sec. 5. Tho right of the people to appeal to the courts, to-pptition government iu all matters, and peaceably to assemble for tho consideration of any matter shall never bo impaired. Sec. 6. Every person eharged with an offence against the laws, shall have the privilege and benefit of counsel, and shall bo furnished, on de mand, with a copy of the accusat ion and a list of witnesses on whoso testimony the charge against him is founded, shall have compulsory processes to compel the attendance of his own witnesses, shall bo confronted with the witnesses testifying against him, and shall have a publie and speedy trial by Un impartial jury. Sec. 9. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are inherent element.* of political liberty. But while every citizen may freely speak, or write,or print on any subject, ho shall he respun sible for the abuse of the liberty. Sac. 10. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not he violated, and no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place or places to be searched, and the person or things to be ssized. Sec. 11. No person shall bo molested forhis opinions, or be subject to any civil or political incapacity, or acquire any civil or political ad vantage in consequence of such opinions. Sec. 14. The right of the people to keep and bears arms shall not be infringed, CODE. Sec. 4249. Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the State with intent to the denial thereof, when the same is manifested by acts pf violence. Sec. 4250. Any attempt, by persuasion er otherwise, to induce others to join in any com bined resistance to the lawful authority of the State, shall constitute au attempt to incite ineur reetiou. Sec. 4251. Any person convicted of the offence of insurrection, or attempt at insurrection, shall be punished with death, or if the jury recommend to mercy, confinement in the Penitentiary for a term not lees than live nor more than twenty years. Ssc. 4252. If any person shall bring, introduce, permit, or circulate, or caused to be introduced, circulated, or permitted, or aid or assist, or be in any manner instrumental in bringing, introducing, circulating, or. printing -within this Stale, any paper, pamphlet, circular, or any writing for the purpose of exciting insurrection, riot, orconspi racy, or resistance against the lawful authority of the State, or against the lives of the inhabitant* thereof, or any part of them, such person or persons so offending shall be guilty of a high mis demeanor, and on conviction shall lie punished by confinement in Uie Penitentiary for a term not less than five uor longer than twenty years. The conditions. upon winch parole was granted to these persons in tins State, who were prisoners of war, are that the persons paroled “ will not be disturbed by the United States authorities so long as they observe their parole aud the laws in force where they reside.’’ RUFUS B. BULLOCK, By the Governor : Governor. "B. B DeGbaffenreid, Secretary Ex. Department. septi— 3t Executive Def abtment, ( - Atlanta, Ga., Septembea 9, 1868.) Ordered, That James 51 Bishop, Exp, of !“ e county of Dawson, be, and he is hereby, appoin ted Compiler of tho Laws of tho present session of the General Assembly, by virtue of the au thority vested in mo by the 1045th section of the Code of Georgia. RUFUS B. BULLOCK. By tho Governor; tlo-vornor. B. B. DeGraffenreid, ' Sec’y Ex. Department. sepll—3t Executive Defabtmbxt, 1 Atlanta, September!), 1868. 1 To the Ordinary of Madison County : Whereas, The House of Representatives hate given official information that a vacancy occurred in\he representation from tho coun of Madison, by the death of tho lion. '■ • Moon ; and whereas, ia all such cases it is o’ tho duty of the Governor to issue n wr,t ' ‘ election, directed to the Ordjnary of th® eoun ■ in which such vacancy may occur— , Therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor, am> Co»mander-in-Chief of the army and nayy thia State, and of the uoiltia thereof, do ws this, my Writ of Election, requiring you, giving due and public notice thereof, ay® r twenty days, to cause an election to be helu, and for said county of Madison, in manner a form as prescribed by law, to fill said vacancy. Given under my hand and the seal of the EX tive Department, at the Capitol, in Atia the day and year above written. • RUFUB B. BULLOCK, By the Governor : Governor. B. B. 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